De gentib. et familiis Romanorum, Richardi Streinnii Baronis Schuuarzenauii.
Freiherr Richard Strein von Schwartzenau (1538-1600)
Category
Books
Date
1571
Materials
Measurements
209 x 166 x 22 mm
Place of origin
Venice
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3215908
Summary
Full description
Orientation: Vertical Text Substrate: handmade wove paper Ink/Pigment: black printing ink and iron-gall inksType: BOUND BOOK Binding Type: Laced case, limp Date of Binding: contemporary Binder's Name: German End Leaves: sewn single fold of plain white handmade laid paper, the outerleaf pasted to the cover. Structure: English Edges: plain cut, coloured blue(?), polished Spine Lining: near flat, transverse parchment linings in panels 2 and 3 End Bands: stuck-on folded and worked 3x4 in pink(?) and cream thread through parchment folded over a tawed core, the slips laced through the coverBookmark: NoneBoards: NoneCovering: full calf parchment with turn-ins at head, tail and foredge.Tooling Spine: NoneTooling Sides: single panel created by a roll tooled in zwischengold, with internal corner fleur-de-lys tools, repeated once in the centreFurniture: 2 pairs of textile ties on the foredge (stumps only) Enclosure: NoneBinding Notes:
Bibliographic description
[16], 229, [3] p. ; 4to. Former shelfmark: BC.sh.2. Running number: 6891. Quire A is wrongly folded in following order A3 (mis-signed A), A4, A1, A2. Manuscript correction to letter on leaf *1v, probably made in the printing house (cf. Ahmanson-Murphy 838). Provenance: manuscript inscription and initial on verso of first front fly-leaf: "First four leaves transposed. M." [i.e. note about quire A and catalogue code written by John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Manuscript price[?] in pencil on verso of first front fly-leaf: "2/6". Manuscript notes in Latin and Greek in sixteenth-century hand on both sides of second front fly-leaf. Manuscript inscription in red ink on title page: "M Eliae Ehingeri sum" [i.e. Elias Ehingeri (1573-1653), German philologist and theologian]. Manuscript notes at head of title page, faded and illegible, washed-out[?]; manuscript marginal annotations and underscoring of text in black ink on leaves **2-4 and A3-4, and in red ink on leaf FF4. Binding: sixteenth-century full limp vellum; sewn onto three tawed-leather sewing supports; covers have a border of either a roll pattern or a repeated decorative tool stamped in black, with black fleur-de-lys cornerpiece and centrepiece stamps; remnants of two pairs of cream-coloured linen ties on fore-edges of covers. Textblock edges possible once stained blue. Four strips of vellum manuscript waste line the spine.
Makers and roles
Freiherr Richard Strein von Schwartzenau (1538-1600), author Paolo Manuzio (1512-1574), printer